This build really doesn’t look it will work at all, have you actually tested it in pvp or just theory craft?
Elixir gun without IP, no pressure.
Flamethower, no pressure.
Elixir C is just passive play it won’t save your life against condi builds, not to mention you already have turret + transmute + EG.
(Your not even running a condition build that can apply constant pressure while you spend time casting these condi cleanse on yourself)
I don’t see myself ever losing to someone running this build, because it looks like the only lethal thing in this build is burning, but you don’t have much conditions to back it up so it will get cleansed soon. But even if you went with dual pistols this build still has too little threat. Easy to run away from, easy to kill.
You can’t get the guild armors anymore either, although the Council armors from CM looks similar, some of them still varies, like the guild shoulder is larger and more boss lookin’
Turrets got popular lately because you can easily give your allies amazing boons like protection, vigor, and retaliation. Not something turret-less engineers can easily do.
But usually turrets are just there for support, you probably want to focus on bomb and grenade kit.
I usually pray to not get this map, but I think it’s a cool idea. Just way too build specific, might as well recommend you a few builds to pick before going in.
Biggest esports I am aware of are MOBA and RTS, both involve a ramp up time, and knowing what your opponents can do.
When I look at GW2, I can’t see what my opponents’ build, so that’s lacking counter play. There is no way to make adjustments during game to fit needs ( like building different units, or buying different items to fit the need)
It’s real time skirmish like counter strike, but it’s random like… random.
It’s only fun to watch when the spotlight is on one character so you clearly see the skills in involved, but on a larger scale it just looks like a mess to average viewers, not entertaining.
Flamethrower is a good pvp kit, I won’t really see myself using it too often in wvw though.. I guess you can blow people off cliffs!
Elixirs seem to be only good when you use it to cleanse conditions or get rid of big boons on enemies like stability. Just taking it alone is pretty crappy. Unless elixir S only for power builds.
Build looks okay. But I’d just go with sigil of force over bloodlust. And you can’t reliably use turrets without metal plating, so I’d take 10 points from explosive and 10 points from tools to inventions, then take the 33% less damage trait and 25% run speed trait.
And just give up enhanced performance, it’s not that great unless you are using medkit
Also blood injection is a horrible trait, take something else.
Commander’s Compendium , will all toons get a tag if you have one now? Or does account bond mean the book is still for one toon, but you can’t sell the item?
I think it’s you can’t sell but for one toon, but a lot of my guild members insist it means all toons will get it, so I want to confirm!
Turret build is pretty fun, I don’t really see it as cheesy though. If I can’ 1v1 a turret engie I just move on, and so should you. Then come back later to 2v1 which takes them down faster than other specs.
Main character is so lame to not support Taimi’s hard work and fight against the arcane counsel, if anything you could use it as leverage and say we will share you the device after you come to the summit…
Has there been talk on the option to replace sets of runes like in pvp without having to constantly buy new sets to destroy old sets, or have multiple sets of armors around?
I think it could be a nice option to support the trait refund system, not to mention every balance patch could heavily affect certain builds, forcing replacement of rune sets; on top of that it’s very difficult to have multiple ascended armor sets to just sport different runes…
I say these two are the easiest because you do cleave damage as well, super noob friendly, but you need traits.
If you actually just want to not die easily, you should just pick ranger, and go catch a few bears or drakes, and let them head in combat first, then you will out tank all classes in PvE in my opinion
FT damage is okay, but #2 is really annoying, it’s slow and it goes under the ground or through walls without detonating.
If you can reliably land #2 then with the #1 buff FT damage is pretty much going to be on par with bomb and grenades just because it’s much easier to hit than grenades and more reach than bombs.
It’s not hard to secure a stomp with the bomb kit blind, pretty much how most thieves do it anyway.
As for reviving your ally, you can’t revive an ally that is getting stomped by a stability stomper anyway.
So it comes down to can you revive an ally getting stomped by someone without stability, in that case interrupting the stomp is almost just as good.
Therefore shield and rifle works, a turret engineer works too with thumper launch.
Best condition cleanse is healing turret, best way to max out healing turret effectiveness is to go turret build since it gives you vigor which = dodges = what most people here love to say a bunker needs as well!
Tip: Don’t waste good skins and transmutation charges on characters that are not lv80 yet.
Back in the day it was rather cheap to dress up none 80 characters due to the lower level transmutation charges, but nowadays there aren’t that many good ways to dress yourself up pre 80, you simply upgrade gears too fast (every 5-10 levels).
It doesn’t sound too hard to make the player auto join the outnumbered team, which is the major concern here right?
Accepting the chaos for what it is, the worst feeling is then to be on the losing team and have another person join the winning team to outnumber you further more.
The problem all comes down to how soloQ and gw2 in general works.
This is not like dota or LoL where you can accurately expect what composition your team/enemy is going to be when you que up and see what “hero/profession” they picked.
Without the ability to be mentally prepared, you will always have a messy group set up for pick up games, and some builds will always work better in this kind of chaos. IMO this kind of pvp is hard to observe for entertainment and will be hard to be popular in esports for the general public.
Of course for the long term PvP-ers, it’s more easy to quickly grasp the meta builds and see through the composition, but I think that’s one in few.
Smoke bomb is useless without giving you 1s stability, most of the time the skill that cause the bomb to drop also can easily make you fly or run away from the bomb you just dropped, how AMAZING.
There are games out there that allows attack to continue if you hold down the attack button (like Wildstar). If GW2 add that then you can just hold a key and throw grenades automatically. Also makes melee easier because you don’t need to spam click to cleave an area when the target is illusive.
I don’t really like the idea of nerfing grenades, again. Bombs are already in a very good place and FT is getting buffed, and you want to nerf grenades?
Turret engineers are meant to be good at bunking down a place, so they should get advantage for 1v1s in a reasonable radius.
Ele meteor shower from staff can really screw up a turret engineer, although I don’t see too many eles running staff, but I do see them!
Most cases you don’t have to fight if you want to , just go contest another point, when you can 2v1 you can take down turret eng pretty easily if you have enough aoes
This topic has been talked to death, for now it’s good enough that you get a guaranteed effect from elixirs, you know what you are using most of it for.
I think elixirs are in an okay place with the upcoming changes. I think the throw elixir cast times can be a bit faster though. But personal opinions like this rarely get anywhere :p
If you are new to engineers you probably don’t know the in and out of many builds yet, so healing turret + transmute is your easiest go to condition cleanse.
Is it a good idea to let stun breakers or conditional removers be usable in transforms? It doesn’t really sound game breaking to me since the CD is still popped, so far if I am ever in DS I just get stunned to death..
It needs to have big diminishing returns, because it’s function is getting too close to what a metabolic primer does, having an option that easily competes with a gem store item is not a good idea.
